Subject: Re: POW user suggestion
From: Gabriel Gerhardsson (mr.g@home.se)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 09:32:45 CDT
On 15 Aug 2001 00:01:27 -0400, Scott wrote:
> This is precisely the reason that I suggested a pager. It is one not so
> small annoyance of AbiWord. So I am going to pull out my toolbox (it's
> the best I have in the absence of a soapbox) and stand on it for a few
> seconds.
> First a pager could go completely unnoticed. My porposal is that it
> would open as the opening screen, with the small addition of three
> buttons on it; New, Open, and Exit. It would be quickly be covered up by
> the opening blank document and could never be seen again by the user, if
> he means to exit the program by closing the last document he clicks Exit
> on any document and Abi (asks to save each document in succession if it
> has not already been saved) closes completely. If he just closes all
> documents then the pager would be left to start a new doc, open another
> doc, or exit. (Stepping down off the soapbox now)
> The point is this is more than a minor irritation. Here are a couple of
> ideas which I have had and have been suggested to do this:
> 1) The suggestion was made for a Close & Open button in the File menu
> which would do the same thing essentially. Probably two buttons
> (widgets?) really; a Close and Open New and a Close and Open Existing.
> They could go between the Print and Close buttons and would probably
> need lines before and after.
> 2) Another idea I have is a dialog which opens on the closing of the
> last document (exiting would close Abi entirely) which would appear
> (after the save dialog, if it has not been saved) asking "Do you wish to
> open another document" with yes/no buttons. Yes would open a new
> instance of Abi and no would close Abi. Simple, elegant, and blows my
> pager idea completely out of the water
>
> Submitted for your consideration,
> Scott Bingman
A simple solution would be to let "Close" close current document and
then open a new one "Untitled1".
Take care
/Gabriel
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